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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kit learn about her late husband and son?
(a) they both loved motorbikes
(b) they had big arguments over Kit
(c) they wrote letters but never met
(d) they knew each other and had a relationship

2. Where does Benny find envelopes of money Sean had been embezzling?
(a) under a loose floorboard
(b) the drawers of the sewing machine
(c) in a cardboard box
(d) in a sock under the counter

3. Why does Nan invite Benny to lunch at the Hibernian?
(a) to make rosemary jealous
(b) to keep her away from Jack Foley
(c) to teach Benny better manners
(d) as an excuse to be there when Simon arrives

4. Who asks Mrs. Healy to marry him and she accepts?
(a) Sean
(b) Paddy
(c) John
(d) Simon

5. Where do Sean and Mrs. Healy go to get married?
(a) Galway
(b) Rome
(c) Dublin
(d) London

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes everyone to become concerned in Knockglen?

2. What is troubling Nan when Emily finds her lying in bed?

3. Why does Heather say Simon is in England?

4. How do John and Lilly react to Jack's news that he and Nan must marry?

5. Where do Nan and Jack wake up together?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Benny learn from Eve about where Jack and Nan went for their trysts.

2. On their date at the restaurant, what romantic thing takes place?

3. What is the resolution for Benny at the end of the novel?

4. What does Nan do when she is sure she is pregnant?

5. Thinking about Jack and Nan, how close does Benny come to the real truth?

6. Why are Eve and Benny not happy with Nan's seeing Simon?

7. What advice of Nan's does Benny use to dissuade her father from walking her to Eve's party and coming to collect her later?

8. What is Jacks suggestion to Benny when they can go around together in Dublin?

9. What do Benny and Annabel learn about the lawyer?

10. What is the exchange between Jack and Benny the morning after Jack took Nan to a dance?

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